Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths is expected to introduce amendments to the Local
Authorities Elections Act, which would extend terms for municipal elected officials from three years to four years.
Notwithstanding desiring the autonomy for municipalities to set the other campaign finance and disclosure rules, Edmonton calls for amendments to the Local
Authorities Elections Act to eliminate corporate and union donations for all local election candidates.
Not exact matches
As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for
election is a composite of four key
authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical
authority: The Constitution, the Electoral
Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for
election approved by the
election management body and l'm talking of INEC.
In any year in which a triennial general
election of members of any local
authority must be held under the Local Electoral
Act 2001, the Electoral Commission must direct an inquiry to be made concerning the particulars on the roll of every person who --
Any electoral official of a local
authority (as defined in section 5 of the Local Electoral
Act 2001) may, on payment of the prescribed fee, and in accordance with regulations made under this
Act, obtain from the Electoral Commission a computer - compiled list or electronic storage medium containing specified information, for the purpose of conducting an
election for any body, where the Electoral Commission is satisfied that --
Togbe Afede said he did not understand why politicians only frequent chiefs when
elections approached and described that
act as show of insolence to traditional
authorities.
The North Carolina legislature meets on September 12 in a special session that has the
authority to
act on
election law bills.
After its
election the Government put this requirement on a statutory footing: Clause 1 of the Schools Standards and Framework
Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education
Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from September 2002.
«For the sake of the country Gordon Brown must take the one final
act of
authority left open to him, go to the palace today and call the general
election we have been demanding.»
The Greater London
Authority was established under the Greater London
Authority Act 1999, with the inaugural
elections to the Greater London Assembly and for the office of Mayor held in May 2000.
The next month, the board conceded it had
acted outside of its
authority in attempting to decertify the
election results.
As those most responsible for the integrity of the
election process in Rockland County and as public officials it is your duty to
act on these allegations of fraud and forgery by forwarding along all corresponding information to the proper
authorities to investigate and take appropriate action as deemed necessary.
(10) No person shall run as a candidate for more than one seat on a district school board or school
authority and any person who does so and is elected to hold one or more seats on the district school board or the school
authority is not entitled to
act as a member of the district school board or the school
authority by reason of the
election.